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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, Tom has a nightmare about his father throwing what object at Tom's mother's face?
(a) A medicine ball.
(b) A knife.
(c) An iron.
(d) A glass.

2. How many words has Tom produced by the end of the day portrayed in Chapter 18?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 600.
(c) 800.
(d) 300.

3. Jake describes the feeling of remembering this mother Rebecca is dead with the sound what food makes when it is chopped?
(a) A hard-boiled egg.
(b) A carrot.
(c) A pepper.
(d) An apple.

4. What type of facility is the 567 Club, where Jake is introduced to the reader for the first time in Chapter 3?
(a) A karate school.
(b) A day care.
(c) A roller skating rink.
(d) A trampoline center.

5. What is the main strategy Pete uses to cope with stress, as revealed in Chapter 7?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Yoga.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom is making coffee in Chapter 13 when he sees a man outside near what part of Tom's property?

2. When the writer of the prologue apologizes at the end of the passage, for what transgression does he apologize?

3. In what decade of life does Tom assume the intruder on his property to be in Chapters 13 and 14?

4. How many years before the events of Chapter 1 did Pete catch and incarcerate Frank Carter?

5. How old is Neil?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the other officers involved in the search for Neil in Chapter 2 consider Pete's presence odd?

2. What aspect of Jake's drawing bothers Tom in Chapter 8?

3. Describe the man who rings Tom's doorbell at the end of Chapter 13 and meets him at the start of Chapter 14.

4. What new details about the Tony Smith case does the reader learn in Chapter 7?

5. For what reason has Tom worried about the trajectory of his career in the wake of Rebecca's death?

6. From whose perspective is the beginning of Chapter 1 narrated and what is the setting?

7. With what sentiment does the writer of the prologue end his address to his son Jake?

8. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Pete is a determined man.

9. At what point in the investigation of Neil Spencer's disappearance does Pete get officially involved?

10. How did Jake learn about the death of his mother, Rebecca?

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